- MI: Suspect in Detroit-area synagogue attack is killed by security, sheriff says
Source: CBS News
“A suspect in an attack on a synagogue in the Detroit area is dead after ramming a vehicle into the building and being confronted by synagogue security, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office says law enforcement responded to an ‘active shooter situation’ at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Thursday afternoon. Bouchard said about 1:35 p.m. Thursday that shots were fired in the area and that area residents within a mile of the location have been asked to shelter in place. … There were no confirmed injuries ‘except potentially the shooter,’ the sheriff said.” (03/12/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/police-respond-active-shooter-situation-at-temple-israel/
- FDA Warns Novo Nordisk Broke Safety Reporting Rules
Source: US News & World Report
“Federal regulators have warned the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy that it failed to report possible drug side effects to the government. In a March 5 warning letter, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Novo Nordisk committed ‘serious violations’ related to safety reporting for semaglutide, the active ingredient in both medications, NBC News reported. The FDA said the company did not report several serious adverse events, including three deaths among patients taking the drugs, by the legal deadline. One of the deaths involved a patient who died by suicide, according to the agency. The FDA also said the company failed to investigate or report that case properly. The agency stressed that the letter does not mean the medications caused the deaths or other side effects.” (03/12/26)
- Newsom says no imminent threat despite FBI efforts to stir up “Iranian drone attack” panic
Source: SFGate
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom said there was no imminent threat to the state, despite a warning from the FBI that Iran could send drones to the West Coast in retaliation for war. Newsom said drone issues ‘have always been top of mind.’ ‘We’ve been aware of that information. … It’s all about a posture of preparedness for worst-case scenarios,’ the governor said Wednesday. The FBI recently warned police departments about Iran and a possible California strike, though the alert also said it was ‘unverified information.’ ‘Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran,’ the alert said.” (03/12/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/california-governor-says-no-imminent-threat-22072793.php
- ICC prosecutor clears US in sanctions against Venezuela case
Source: United Press International
“The International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor announced Thursday that the United States did not commit crimes against humanity with its sanctions against Venezuela. The investigation, called Venezuela II by the court, was referred to the court by Venezuela’s government in 2020, alleging that sanctions against the country had caused suffering and hardship. … The ICC prosecutor determined that the ‘evidential requirements of causation and intent are not met.'” (03/12/26)
- NY: Lawmakers back Mamdani push to steal more from “the rich,” setting up clash with Hochul
Source: Gothamist
“Democratic state lawmakers are formally backing a version of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to tax the rich, setting up a budget showdown in Albany with Gov. Kathy Hochul. Leaders of the state Assembly and Senate inserted much of the Democratic mayor’s agenda Tuesday into their official ‘one-house’ counterproposals to Hochul’s state budget plan. That includes a tax hike on people reporting more than $5 million of income as well as an increase in the state’s corporate tax rates from 7.25% to 9%. The two houses, both controlled by Democrats, also included various changes to New York City’s tax code sought by Mamdani, including versions of his proposals to boost New York City’s corporate, business and ‘mansion’ taxes. … The governor, a moderate Democrat, has steadfastly opposed income-tax increases since taking office in 2021 and has centered her re-election campaign on a message of affordability.” (03/12/26)
- Automatic Draft Registration: Everything Old is New Again
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“You may have only recently heard: As of this coming December, all American males will find themselves ‘automatically registered,’ upon the occasion of their 18th birthdays, for a prospective military draft. Given current events, that prospect understandably gives off sinister vibes — ‘but without a draft, who would do the necessary work of murdering Iranian elementary school students and Venezuelan fisherme … er, ‘narco-terrorists?” — so you might be surprised to learn that it’s old news. On December 30, 2024, then US president Joe Biden (or maybe his autopen?) signed the National Defense [sic] Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, which included the relevant provision. Reaction from the general public: Yawn … hey, the Chargers clinched a wild card playoff berth! OMG, Jimmy Carter died! NDAA? Whazzat? War has a way of retroactively refocusing the mind, doesn’t it? In reality, ‘automatic registration’ is even older news, though.” (03/12/26)
- Selling Another War: Who Gets to Speak for Iran?
Source: Antiwar.com
by David S D’Amato“In coverage of the war against Iran, a familiar choreography is playing out again, one that the media have carefully refined to exploit the perceived credibility of diaspora groups in order to push war and empire. This phenomenon of selectively and specifically amplifying diaspora voices who will cheerlead for war is now a well-documented feature of the American media ecosystem. For months in the lead up to this new illegal and unconstitutional war, high-profile American ‘news’ outlets featured almost exclusively Iranians and Iranian-Americans who argued for regime change through ground invasion, a position arguably even more extreme and reckless than that of Donald Trump. Major outlets host sympathetic figures with very good reasons to hate the target country and unassailable arguments that its rulers are authoritarian criminals.” (03/12/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/david_damato/2026/03/11/selling-another-war-who-gets-to-speak-for-iran
- The Madness of King Trump
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow“President Donald Trump has lawlessly launched a full-scale war against a distant nation that neither attacked nor threatened America. Instead, Iran was negotiating with the United States, offering substantial concessions. The president justified his aggression with rhetoric similar to that of Russia’s Vladimir Putin in launching Moscow’s ‘special military operation’ against Ukraine. … He is acting more as Roman emperor than American president, wandering the globe conquering foreign lands and looting subject peoples for personal as well as national gain. He has become the sort of reckless despot feared by the nation’s founders. This tragic perversion of the American experiment demonstrates the terrible truth of Lord Acton’s famous axiom: ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely.'” (03/12/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-madness-of-king-trump/
- Washington Post’s Crazy Iran War Conspiracy Theory
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard“Long before Trump partnered with Israel to attack Tehran, Democrats, libertarians, and even decent Americans warned that Trump would bomb Iran again to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile scandal. Most American voters believe that ‘Trump launched the war on Iran at least in part to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal,’ according to a new poll by DropSite News. Fifty-two percent of voters agreed with that statement, while 40% disagreed. But according to the Washington Post, anyone who still complains about the Epstein scandal is propelling Iranian propaganda.” (03/12/26)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/03/12/washington-posts-crazy-iran-war-conspiracy-theory/
- At a Hinge Moment in History, We Must Build a Liberal Future
Source: Liberalism.org
by Emily Chamlee-Wright“I am fascinated by hinge moments in history. I like to cast my imagination into the minds of key players at a point when they know the stakes are high, but the outcome is radically uncertain. In hinge moments, courageous defenders of a cause have no idea how it will all turn out, or how their efforts will be remembered by later generations. … Hinge moments are those when the stakes are high, the future is radically undetermined, and capable but flawed human beings have to act decisively—even when the better world we’re aiming to achieve doesn’t give up its instructions easily. We are living through such a moment now.” (03/12/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/at-a-hinge-moment-in-history-we-must-build-a-liberal-future
- Britain scores a win for equality
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“Britain’s parliamentary democracy, one of the oldest in the world, has its quirks. For more than 1,000 years, its kings and queens have presided atop a pyramid of lords, earls, viscounts, and other layers of nobility. Alongside elected members of the House of Commons, these titled (and often wealthy) peers have held hundreds of hereditary seats in Parliament’s upper House of Lords for centuries. ‘Undemocratic, overcrowded, dominated by silly archaic practices and unrepresentative of the British population,’ is how one reform-minded member has described the chamber. But all that is about to change: On Tuesday, Parliament adopted a bill abolishing the remaining quota of 92 seats that can be automatically filled by the heirs of titled peers. The act fulfills one of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s election pledges, completing a process started by his predecessor Tony Blair, who removed more than 600 seats in 1999.” (03/11/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0311/Britain-scores-a-win-for-equality
- Entrepreneurs Take on the Funeral Monopoly: When Selling a Box Becomes a Crime
Source: The Daily Economy
by Patrick Carroll“Oklahoma’s protectionist casket laws block competition and inflate costs. But some entrepreneurs are fighting back, taking their case to court to defend economic freedom.” (03/12/26)
- The Robot Won’t Take Your Job. The Government Might
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Attila Rebak“In the spring of 1812, British textile workers smashed power looms across Nottinghamshire, convinced that the machines would make their skills worthless and their families destitute. They were right about the disruption. Mills did displace hand-weavers. Communities that had organized themselves around a particular kind of skilled labor were genuinely torn apart. The Luddites weren’t stupid, and they weren’t wrong to feel the ground shifting. They were wrong about one thing: the conclusion. The labor those machines displaced didn’t vanish. It migrated into factories, railways, cities, and industries that hadn’t existed, filling wants that hand-weavers in 1812 couldn’t have imagined needing to satisfy. We are the Luddites now. Not the smashing machines part — the being right about the disruption and wrong about the conclusion part.” (03/12/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/robot-wont-take-your-job-government-might
- Chiefs Get “Massive Giveaway” While Woman Gets Tone-Policed
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Melinda Henneberger“[T]he Hunts want to build their new $3 billion domed stadium in Wyandotte County, just across the river from larger and wealthier KCMO. We can debate how much economic development stadiums really bring, but both Republicans and Democrats in Topeka are determined to impose such a one-sided deal on heavily minority and historically economically disadvantaged WyCo that if there were any shame left in this world, they’d be walking around wondering what that unfamiliar but unpleasant feeling might be. The deal, such as it is, exempts the stadium from property taxes and gives the team 100% of both football and non-football revenue, while Wyandotte County residents provide most of the money for building the stadium. There is no community benefits agreement spelled out in writing, and that’s one of many problems. But hey, those pushing this thing do offer free lectures to anyone with questions.” (03/12/26)
- Trump and the Return of the White Man’s Burden
Source: TomDispatch
by Juan Cole“Under President Donald J. Trump, the United States has now become an engine for the promulgation of White nationalism. Not since the 1930s has such an ideology, which exalts those ethnic groups it codes as ‘White’, while denigrating all others, underpinned the domestic and foreign policies of a major world power. Typically (for our moment), Trump’s recent National Security Strategy (NSS) depicted Europe as in distinct ‘civilizational decline’ because of the European Union’s commitment to multiracial democracy and international humanitarian law. These days, thanks to its racial policies, the Trump team even finds a way to inject racial hatred into dry economic statistics, complaining that ‘Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP [gross domestic product] — down from 25 percent in 1990 to 14 percent today.'” (03/12/26)
- Antitrusts’ Dirty Secret
Source: Law & Liberty
by Jon Miltimore“Shortly before Valentine’s Day, Gail Slater, the head of antitrust enforcement at the Department of Justice (DOJ), announced she was leaving ‘with great sadness.’ Accounts of the split vary, but Slater appears to have been the loser of an internal political struggle at the White House and given a choice: resign or be fired. Whether the action was warranted is debatable, but many say the departure of Slater, an antitrust hawk, will weaken antitrust enforcement in Washington.” (03/12/26)
- Is Free Speech Maximalism Just for Young Men?
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Gabrielle Bauer“I can’t tell you exactly how I would respond to a dude who defended Hitler, but I know what I wouldn’t do: stalk him on social media, contact his employer to try to get him fired, or lobby my government representative to help criminalize such talk. Does this make me a free speech absolutist? Not quite. Like Robert Jensen, a professor emeritus at the University of Austin and prolific blogger, I suspect that most people who call themselves free speech absolutists don’t actually mean it.” (03/12/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/is-free-speech-maximalism-just-for-young-men/
- Should December 7 Continue to Be a Date That Lives in Infamy?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, an ostensibly shocked President Franklin Roosevelt went before Congress to request a declaration of war against Japan. In that address, Roosevelt declared that December 7 would be ‘a date which will live in infamy.’ … the Japanese attack on the United States was a ‘sneak’ attack — that is, an attack that was not preceded by an official declaration of war by Japan against the United States. Under FDR’s reasoning, by not first declaring war on the United States and then attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan had behaved in a sneaky, low-brow, dishonorable way. And that’s been the official U.S. narrative that has been taught to American schoolchildren in America’s public schools ever since. … A question naturally arises: Should that official narrative regarding America’s entry into World War II now be scotched, in view of the recent U.S.-Israel sneak attack on Iran?” (03/12/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/12/should-december-7-continue-to-be-a-date-that-lives-in-infamy/
- Obama’s Race-Hustling Eulogy at a Race Hustler’s Funeral
Source: Town Hall
by Larry Elder“Former President Barack Obama long ago surpassed the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton as America’s most influential race hustler. The country got a reminder when Obama spoke at Jackson’s funeral, even though Jackson’s son urged the speakers ‘not to bring their politics’ to the service. Obama said, ‘Every day you wake up to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other, and to turn on each other. And that some Americans count more than others.’ Same old Obama. In his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, he famously declared, ‘There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.’ It was the line that launched him and made millions across party lines believe he could bridge divides.” (03/12/26)
- Not a Dime More for Trump’s Illegal War
Source: The Contrarian
by Jennifer Rubin“Donald Trump’s Iran war is either ‘won’ and ‘complete’ or just ‘beginning,’ depending on which fragment of one of Trump’s incoherent run-on rants you focus on. If it is the latter, the Trump regime apparently will ask Congress for more money to support his unconstitutional, unpopular, and unending war. You can hear the panic rising in the voices of Republicans too cowardly to openly confront Trump. It is one thing to mumble about deference to the commander in chief in voting down a War Powers Act (WPA) resolution; it is quite another to go all in by rubber-stamping funds to continue a war that even many MAGA voters question.” (03/12/26)
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/not-a-dime-more-for-trumps-illegal
- The Delusion of Safety “Here”
Source: CounterPunch
by Michael K Smith“‘It’s not meant to be happening here.’ Louise Starkey, an Australian influencer in Dubai posted those words to the internet in response to Iranian missiles hitting the United Arab Emirates. The adverb says everything. Life is forever nice ‘here’ because all the crimes we commit ‘there’ are denied a response and whitewashed out of the news ‘here.’ The phrase, which Starkey erased in response to a tsunami of indignant criticism, aptly sums up the dominant attitude in the Global North, where misfortune is happenstance and the organized brutality undergirding economic life merely makes for an ‘interesting proposition’ in an academic seminar, if even that. The ‘here’ makes clear that there are places that can be bombarded, like Palestine and Venezuela, and other places no, like the United Arab Emirates, an oil and gas tax shelter for the fabulously wealthy.” (03/12/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/12/the-delusion-of-safety-here/
- Louisiana’s “Tough-on-Crime” Bill Could End Jury Trials for Many
Source: Chasing Liberty
by Jeff Charles“What happens when you take power from the people and put it in the hands of judges and prosecutors?” (03/12/26)
https://www.libertychasers.com/p/louisianas-tough-on-crime-bill-could
- Understanding MAGA’s Plot to Rig the Midterms and Destroy Democracy
Source: Truthdig
by Bill Blum“The ongoing Trumpian plot to rig the midterms and end democracy is getting crazier and more dangerous by the day. The plot is also becoming increasingly layered and will likely continue all the way to next January 3, when newly elected members of the Senate and every member of the House will be sworn into office. Keeping abreast of all the twists and turns as the scheme unfolds can be exhausting and overwhelming, and that’s exactly how our narcissist-in-chief and his assorted obergruppenführers want you to feel. But don’t give in. The plot is inherently flawed and, although we can never be certain, it will ultimately fail in the face of the president’s plummeting poll numbers, the deepening affordability crisis, and the growing popular resistance movement. In the meantime, here is a list of the plot’s main elements to help you stay informed, connected, and, above all, engaged.” (03/12/26)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/could-january-3-become-the-next-january-6/
- Gangster Foreign Policy
Source: The American Conservative
by George D O’Neill Jr.“It is abundantly clear that most of the American people are against this latest Middle Eastern war, yet Congress is afraid to fulfill their constitutional duty to stop it. Congress is not even willing to debate our participation in that frenzy of death and destruction. Why? This decades-long pattern suggests there is some force or forces able to maintain an almost continual pro-war agenda. How does this happen in administration after administration without fail? It never seems to go the other way.” (03/12/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gangster-foreign-policy/
- Britain Once Led the World. What Happened?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Damian Pudner“Britain was once the workshop of the world. Later it became one of the most open and dynamic economies in Europe. When the post-war economic model began to falter in the 1970s the country eventually recognised that incremental tweaks would not suffice. Structural reform became unavoidable. What followed was neither cautious nor gradual. The reforms of the 1980s dismantled large parts of the existing economic model and replaced them with something far more competitive. Nowhere was that clearer than in the financial sector. The Big Bang of 1986 swept away restrictive practices, opened London’s markets and helped turn the City into one of the world’s dominant financial centres. Whether one applauds or criticises those reforms, their ambition is undeniable. That sense of ambition is strikingly absent from Britain’s economic debate today.” (03/12/26)
https://fee.org/articles/britain-once-led-the-world-what-happened/
- Economically, Feeling Better Isn’t the Same as Being Better
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Tuohey“In a series of sketches for Saturday Night Live, Billy Crystal played a fictionalized version of actor and director Fernando Lamas as host of the talk show ‘Fernando’s Hideaway.’ Crystal’s character would often say that it is better to look good than to feel good. This was on my mind as I reviewed recent evaluations of St. Louis’s guaranteed basic income pilot by Washington University’s Center for Social Development. The review’s claims will sound familiar to anyone who has followed these pilot programs around the country. … But as economists Hilary Hoynes and Jesse Rothstein of the University of California, Berkeley note in a review of the universal basic income literature, the new wave of guaranteed-income pilots is ‘not well suited’ to answer the most important questions about the policy.” (03/12/26)
- How Not To Do Regime Change
Source: Persuasion
by Francis Fukuyama“It is hard to overstate what a complete shambles American foreign policy has become since Donald Trump launched his war against Iran on February 28. Trump clearly believed that the initial decapitation strike would lead to the collapse of the Islamic regime and its replacement by a new leadership willing to work with the United States. He seems to have had Venezuela on his mind as a model, as he referred to it several times during the war’s first week. He and his associates failed to anticipate Iran’s capacity to strike back, as it launched rounds of missiles and drones at U.S. allies and bases in the region, disrupting Gulf economies and raising gasoline prices in the United States. What is particularly maddening about this is that anyone who has lived through the last quarter century of U.S. Middle East policy should have understood that war would produce multiple unintended and devastating consequences.” (03/12/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-not-to-do-regime-change
- The Words of War Republicans Refuse to Say
Source: The Bulwark
by Joe Perticone“As Trump’s military ‘excursion’ intensifies, they are taking extraordinary care to avoid saying ‘war’ and ‘boots on the ground.'” (03/12/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-words-of-war-republicans-refuse-boots-on-the-ground-iran
- The Island of Dispossessed Guns
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“As a gun owner in Rhode Island, you may think that no matter what wacko state laws legislators impose to make it harder to buy weapons, at least you’ll remain secure in your right to the arms you’ve already legally purchased. Not so. Bearing Arms alerts us to the fact that two bills pending in the state legislature jeopardize your right to keep your already owned — lawfully obtained — firearms. One bill does so immediately. The other paves the way for follow-up legislation that does so immediately.” (03/12/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/12/island-of-dispossessed-guns/
- The Fifth Column, episode 548
Source: The Fifth Column
“Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone.” (03/12/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/gov-chris-christie-tells-on-everyone
- The Libertarian Angle, 03/12/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“U.S. Interventions in World War I and World War II.” (03/12/26)
- “Bryan Caplan and Me Solve the World’s Problems”
Source: Bet On It
“My new friend Peter Banks runs the Boyd Institute, which focuses on ‘tackling gerontocracy, overregulation, and social fragmentation.’ In this conversation, we discuss my You Have No Right to Your Culture and much more.” (03/12/26)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/bryan-caplan-and-me-solve-the-worlds
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/12/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump On Iran: ‘We’re Winning!’ US Intel: ‘No, You’re Not.'” (03/12/26)
- Rising, 03/12/26
Source: The Hill
“Joe Rogan warns World War III is possible soon, urges restraint on Iran!” (03/12/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5774565-rising-march-12-2026/
- Underthrow Podcast, 03/12/26
Source: Underthrow
“Conscious Machines, Cyborgs, and Existential Risk.” (03/12/26)